Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-07-02
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bid to inderdict by authority" appli-
clble to sermon and things not inn
plying authority or right.
These lines UNDERSIGNED were writ
ten by Webster, thus showing the
Importance to be attach 1 to their
meaning.
The authority must come from
those who have the "authority or
right"
This suggests the idea who has the
authority or right" in this country.
The answer is simply, The people, a
government formed by them upon
the idea of Freedom, an asylum for
the prosecuted of all nations.
The government had hardly been
organized before the fanatics who
sought liberty from the tyranny of
the old country and landing upon
Pts mouth Rock began their tyranny
and sought to bring under their con-
troll all the people.
This tyranny specially exhibltedit-
self in the pilpits as early as 1912 a
writer of the Gospel 4ays that the
Fanatics who leave their pulpits and
preach the Seat "moral idea are
ward politicians" This epbithet is
intended as the most offensive one
that could be rsed at this day and
doubtless had the same meaning at
that time.
A few men who seek notirie.y as
ministers of the gospel and who fear
their own shadows and who tremble
before the bursting of a fire cracker
by boy, under the suprosition that
dynamise was used for their destruc-
ton, and other ministers who place
themselves in the position of my yrs
to do good to heir fellowman, forget
what is the libel ~ Of their country
men and its history.
A few pathetic stories are told in
their add~ess of men who murdered
wife and children (taken from the
newspapers and never a discussion OF
thought of liberty. Never a state
ment of facts about others who have
died. E
Why was this country drenched in
blood twenty odd years ago, when
the brave and best of your men fell in
D battle when half a million of mer
gave up their lives, Whiskey did il
, they say. The fanatics and preachers
of the North lei their pulpits where
duty compelled them to preach
: "Jesus Christ and him crucified anG
sought the low level of ward politi.
q clans. This caused the death of this
half million of men, not whiskey
When a minister leaves his church
where he should educate and instruct
his people he has no more right tC
! claim the respect of his flock thar
this same ward politician" Where
will this spirit of dictation lead us In
5 free country, man to be dictated
: to. BY whom? If dictatiOn is the
q order of the day, who is to bt
, the dictator? If economy is tt
: be practiced, who will tell us what il
: economy? To 60 to the. bottom facts
f and seek economy we should dres;
: our ladies as follows:
staw 10
sklrb. zo
calico
5 This is all that is needed for he
comforts unless perhaps she desires {
, pair of shoes which could be bOugh
! for another dollar.
A Constitutional Amendment
!. should be made requiring that this il
! all a man can expend for his family
The sheriff should be instructed t
see that this provision is carried OFT
t Coffee Is expensive another should
Y be made forbidding its purchase fol
/ it is SO much cheaper dig up sussafras
root and make tea.
Whisky is to be prohibited. To
g bacco is to be prohibited. You
4 clothes and those of your family are
o to be dictated. Following this line
of thought you are to be dictated tC
as to what church you will attend
9 1t reminds us of the Pharisee who
!. made broad his factories and prayed
e upon the street corners and thanked
God he wasn't like other men,
: He never dreamed Of Public an, de.
] spised of all men who struck his
I breast and said
"God me merciful to me sinner"
The present is bnt a repetition OF
past and the street corner preachers
: had better take the beam out of theil
own eyes that they may more surely
J. see the moat that is in their broth
g ers eye.
LIBERTY
RI. REV. BISHOP RADAMACHER
t of Nashville administered the Sacra
1 ment of Confirmation to thirty-nin'
boys and girls in the Catholic church
in this city on Sunday Goth June
after which he delivered a sermon